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Where you can use your Bitcoins?

Where you can use your Bitcoins?

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The reason why Bitcoin didn’t replace traditional payment methods The creators of Bitcoin wish it will become a substitute for the majority of centralized payment methods, but currently, this coin is used for long-term investments more often than for anything else. It seems that BTC’s fate was...

Iran finds 1,000 Bitcoin mining computers after a power spike

Iran finds 1,000 Bitcoin mining computers after a power spike

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Iranian governments caught over 1000 mining computers from two former factories. The operation was performed after governments discovered a spike in electricity consumption. The minister of energy announced that request for electricity grew by 7% in June and it’s considered that Bitcoin mining is...

Bitcoin is losing its value just as quickly as gained it

Bitcoin is losing its value just as quickly as gained it

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Everyone was following the swift rise of Bitcoin’s price this week. The rate of crypto coin passed $14000 mark on June 26 and this was the most high-priced level since January 2018. Then, just in several minutes, the coin changed its course and started to lose in price....

Opera launches a browser for iOS with a built-in crypto wallet

Opera launches a browser for iOS with a built-in crypto wallet

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Opera browser published about the newest Touch browser for iOS on June 26. They announced that it’s ready to be downloaded for the App store. This blockchain-ready browser was implemented on Android and PC before, which indicates that Opera is Web 3-ready beyond all the leading platforms now....

Bitcoin's price increased to $13000, afterwards it lost almost 13%

Bitcoin's price increased to $13000, afterwards it lost almost 13%

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On June 26, Bitcoin passed the mark $13000, after several minutes it shed about $1000. At 6 pm ET, Bitcoin’s price was back to $12000-plus cost. The reason for this wasn’t clear, but we all know that cryptocurrencies are famous for their price swings. A preceding bitcoin craze hit a fever...

Mark Zuckerberg will speak about privacy and regulations at Aspen Ideas conference today

Mark Zuckerberg will speak about privacy and regulations at Aspen Ideas conference today

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The public and governments scrutiny of Facebook’s influence increases, so Mark Zuckerberg decided to speak on the Aspen Ideas Festival today and explain all privacy and regulation details. His speech is set at 4:30 pm ET. As Aspen reports, Zuckerberg is going to speak with Harvard Professor Cass...

Asian cryptocurrency stocks rise as Bitcoin is reliving

Asian cryptocurrency stocks rise as Bitcoin is reliving

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Asian stocks started to rise on Monday after Bitcoin’s price got over $10000 for the first time since the last year. As Bloomberg reported, Metaps Inc. raised 11%, GMO Internet Inc. jumped 7% to its greatest level from October 2019, Ceres Inc. climbed 4.4% and Remixpoint Inc. 6.2% in Tokyo. Woori...

After struggling with Apple Pay, banks prefer to stay on sidelines for the Facebook coin

After struggling with Apple Pay, banks prefer to stay on sidelines for the Facebook coin

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Banks of the US may prefer to stay onside from Facebook’s cryptocurrency. The Libra Association is making conversations with various lenders all over the world for joining their ranks, but the banks are still staying away from this idea after being a witness to a costumers' reaction to Apple Pay...

Android devices are affected by crypto mining malware, which was detected TrendMicro

Android devices are affected by crypto mining malware, which was detected TrendMicro

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A new botnet for cryptocurrency and mining has been identified utilising Android Debug Bridge ports, a system created to determine app defects connected to a majority of Android phones and tablets. Trend Micro reported that the botnet malware has been found in 21 countries and is most prevalent in...

Ether follows Bitcoin and hits the highest price in the last 10 months

Ether follows Bitcoin and hits the highest price in the last 10 months

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Ethereum’s native currency ETH hits the highest price in the last 10 months period and bypasses $300. The second most successful cryptocurrency in the world reached a price of $306 at 01:10 UTC. This rate was last seen in August 2018. ETH represents 9.7% gains in 24 hours and 129% gains...

Mining giant Bitmain is planning to launch an IPO in the US

Mining giant Bitmain is planning to launch an IPO in the US

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Bitmain technologies Ltd., one of the chief crypto mining hardware corporations, decided to start an IPO in Hong Kong in September 2018. It even registered an IPO on the HKEX, but the attempt faced with some hardness and the corporation stopped the process. Now, as Bloomberg reported, the mining...

Bitcoin's price is higher than $10K! This happened for the first time since 2018

Bitcoin's price is higher than $10K! This happened for the first time since 2018

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In the last 15 months, Bitcoin’s price became higher than $10000 on cryptocurrency exchanges for the first time. This rate was reached at 7:35 pm Eastern time. Basing on 24 hours statistics, Bitcoin is bypassing top 10 cryptocurrencies with 7% gains. A 12% hike of trading volumes brought to this...

Microsoft and Salesforce join to Hyperledger Blockchain Consortium

Microsoft and Salesforce join to Hyperledger Blockchain Consortium

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Two of the world’s greatest software corporations flocked to a Hyperledger consortium. After this event, the corporation from the Linux Foundation began gathering more steam. It was reported this week that 8 large enterprises would start their blockchain path by joining Hyperledger. Besides two...

Governments already diminish Project Libra

Governments already diminish Project Libra

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Mark Zuckerberg wrote about the start of the Libra project in a Facebook post on June 18. People started congratulating Zuckerberg for this new achievement, while governments started diminishing this extremely unexpected project. Maxine Waters, the chair of the US House Financial Services...

Slack is going public, but it’s not an IPO

Slack is going public, but it’s not an IPO

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All people who use or used Slack in their life divide into two categories: once, who think that it’s one of the best tools for messaging and once, who thinks that it’s just a bunch of notifications coming straight to their face 24/7. No matter which category is your, it’s obvious that Slack...

Digital Asset starts to contribute with Hyperledger, R3 Corda and Amazon

Digital Asset starts to contribute with Hyperledger, R3 Corda and Amazon

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Digital Asset is a software company that is operating on a blockchain. It has its smart contract programming language, which is known as Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) and now it’s going to be integrated with R3 Corda, Amazon’s database service AWS Aurora and Hyperledger Fabric. At the...

LINE is near to getting Japan license for crypto exchange

LINE is near to getting Japan license for crypto exchange

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The famous messaging platform from Japan LINE will be able to open a cryptocurrency exchange in the country soon. LINE is really close to getting a license from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA), it can even become real in this month. Owning the license will let the company run BitMax...

Italy’s Banking industry is going to boost cooperation with blockchain

Italy’s Banking industry is going to boost cooperation with blockchain

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Finextra published that starting from March 2020 The Italian Banking Association (ABI) is going to deploy blockchain technology to manage reconciliations. The primary thing that’ll be implemented in the banking system of Italy is the distributed ledger technology for agreements acceleration....

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